SRC-030 · Complete metadata
The Kamaiya system of bonded labour in Nepal
World Organisation Against Torture · 2006
Record details
- Study population
- Kamaiya bonded labourers and freed Kamaiya communities
- Geography
- Banke, Bardiya, Kailali, Kanchanpur, and Dang districts, mid- and far-western Nepal
- Sample size
- 10 Kamaiyas interviewed in November 2004 for post-freedom assessment
- Method
- Unspecified: Case study
- Labour system
- Kamaiya
- Themes
- Legal abolition & policy, Rehabilitation, Land & livelihoods, Forced labour & debt
Recorded findings
- Legal abolition did not deliver substantive freedom because rehabilitation and alternative livelihoods remained unresolved.
- The ban did not address structurally unequal agrarian relations, so gains could relapse.
Citation
World Organisation Against Torture. (2006). The Kamaiya system of bonded labour in Nepal. https://www.omct.org/files/interdisciplinary-study/ii_b_3_nepal_case_study.pdf